Forgiveness Quotes - Page 13

Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.

The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and who came to accomplish something in his life death and resurrection.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.

Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror...

n order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?

Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn't.
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Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim-letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.

In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.